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I am pleased to inform you that I have been invited to join WhoWhatWhy.org, a consortium of 100 reporters, editors and other professionals with the skills necessary to produce hard-hitting, meticulously-sourced investigative journalism. My first article, which was published today on WhoWhatWhy’s website is a collaboration with Russ Baker, the group’s founder and guiding light.

Over the course of two decades, prior to founding WhoWhatWhy, Russ did work for many of the world’s leading news outlets, including the New Yorker, Village Voice, Nation, Columbia Journalism Review, Times of London, Esquire, Vanity Fair, etc. He’s also the author of the best-selling investigative history of the Bush dynasty, Family of Secrets.

I very much look forward to working with Russ and the other journalists he has brought together at WhoWhatWhy on stories of national interest. I will continue to write stories on WiseLawNY of interest to judges, lawyers and interested observers of the legal scene in the New York metropolitan area.

Russ’ and my collaboration draws upon two stories that WhoWhatWhy and WiseLawNY published within four days of each other in late March. The WhoWhatWhy story sifted through many coincidences and relationships suggesting that the Trump organization had often been in close proximity to both Mafia families and Russian criminals in New York. It also further identified, Felix Sater, a convicted felon, who was a government informant for more than a decade starting in 1998, as having both business dealings with Trump and deep ties to Russia where he was born.